Teaching with a link to current research; extensive methodology training; Guided planning, implementation and evaluation of own experiments; Option to define individual key areas in the optional required areas based on interest and aptitude; Support for classroom teaching through e-Learning platform; Extensive student advice and counselling; many tutorials; Inclusion of relevant basic and applied subjects; The university psychotherapy clinic and the aptitude psychological guidance office are integrated into the Master's degree course; The "Psychological Learning Therapist (BDP)" qualification can be acquired as part of the master's degree

A great many Erasmus cooperation agreements with European universities (> 50); many incoming students (>30 per year) and outgoing students (>70 per year); Cooperation agreements with US universities; good counselling by Erasmus officers. Strong international focus in research, regular visiting researchers from abroad, international Summer Schools (2017 Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience, approx. 40 participants from abroad; 2018: Reading and Learning in the Digital World, 2021: How Stories Affect our Lives: The Psychology of Narrative Impact)

Well-equipped laboratories for experimental investigations in Cognitive Science, Social, Development, and Educational and Experimental Clinical Psychology; Virtual reality laboratories and a 5-sided CAVE System to investigate normal and pathological behaviour; Video laboratories for empirical research in Developmental and Educational Psychology; Psychophysiology laboratories; Possible to capture brain activities by means of imaging techniques (magnetic resonance tomography, near-infrared spectroscopy); Brain-computer interface laboratories. Eye tracking labs

Research projects funded by the German Research Foundation, the EU and the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology; Participation in the Collaborative Research Centre "Anxiety, Fear, Anxiety Disorders"; Organisation of the ‘Emotions’ research training group; Participation in the "Life Science" and "Humanities" graduate schools; Cooperation with companies in private sector; Many opportunities for research assistantship contracts

The Chair for Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the institute operates a psychotherapeutic university outpatient clinic for research and teaching and organises a continuing education degree course in Psychological Psychotherapy (WAPP; Aptitude psychological guidance office (associated with the Chair of Psychology IV, Educational Psychology)